Laslo
Hungarumlaut · Adam Katyi · 2018
A Bauhaus-inspired geometric sans by Adam Katyi, named after László Moholy-Nagy and built around a single archival letterform found in a 1930s wallpaper specimen.
About
Designed by Adam Katyi and released on what would have been Moholy-Nagy's 123rd birthday, Laslo takes a single letter 'a' from a Tapetenmusterbuch at the Bauhaus Archive as its starting point, extrapolating a full alphabet with careful attention to proportion. Rounded letters carry a subtle vertical straight segment within their countershapes, visible at large sizes yet receding at text sizes to read as fully round. The family runs across five weights from Thin to Black in two widths, Normal and Wide, with OpenType alternates for a more strictly geometric style including a single-storey 'a' and optically equalised arms on E and F.
Classification
Laslo is a geometric sans with Bauhaus construction principles at its core, featuring grid-based proportions, constructed letterforms and alternate single-storey characters typical of the geometric sans tradition.